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Rama, a successful journalist and author living in Paris, has come to Saint Omer, a town in the north of France, to attend the trial of a young Senegalese woman, Laurence Coly, who allegedly murdered her baby daughter. Although she admits to killing the child, she cannot or will not provide motivation, claiming it was a kind of sorcery out of her control. Rama’s plan to write about Laurence in a book inspired by the Medea myth increasingly unravels as she becomes overwhelmed by the case and reckons with memories of her immigrant mother as well as her own impending motherhood. In her consummate fiction feature debut, Alice Diop constructs an arresting yet highly sensitive, superbly acted film of constantly revealing layers. Saint Omer is at once a tense courtroom drama, a work of abstracted psychological portraiture, an inquiry into human agency, and a provocative examination of the limits of myth and cross-cultural knowledge. (Super LTD)
(more)Awards
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- Nominations
Independent Spirit Awards
- 2023 - Best International Film
European Film Awards
- 2022 - Alice Diop (Best Director)
César Awards
- 2023 - Alice Diop, Christophe Barral, Toufik Ayadi (Best First Film)
- 2023 - Guslagie Malanda (Most Promising Actress)
- 2023 - Alice Diop, Amrita David, Marie N'Diaye (Best Original Screenplay)
- 2023 - Claire Mathon (Best Cinematography)
Florida Film Critics Circle Awards
- 2022 - Best Foreign Language Film
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
- 2022 - Best Foreign-Language Film
Venice Film Festival
- 2022 - Alice Diop (Silver Lion - Grand Jury Prize)
- 2022 - Alice Diop (Lion of the Future (Luigi De Laurentiis Award))
- 2022 - Alice Diop (Golden Lion for Best Film)